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myself

pron
/maɪˈsɛlf/

Etymology

From Middle English myself, meself, from Old English mē selfum and similar phrases, equivalent to me + self, later partly reinterpreted as my + self / -self. Cognate with Scots mysel, mysell (“myself”), West Frisian mysels (“myself”), Dutch mijzelf (“myself”), German mich selbst, mir selbst (“myself”), Norwegian Bokmål meg selv (“myself”).

  1. inherited from mē
  2. inherited from myself

Definitions

  1. Me, as direct or indirect object the speaker as the object of a verb or preposition, when…

    Me, as direct or indirect object the speaker as the object of a verb or preposition, when the speaker is also the subject.

    • I taught myself.
    • (I) don’t think much of your new car, myself.
    • Thinks I to myself, “Sol, you're run off your course again. This is a rich man's summer ‘cottage’ and if you don't look out there's likely to be some nice, lively dog taking an interest in your underpinning.”

  2. Personally, for my part

    Personally, for my part; used in apposition to I, sometimes for simple emphasis and sometimes with implicit exclusion of any others performing the activity described.

    • I myself have witnessed the event.

  3. In my normal state of body or mind.

    • I feel like myself.
  4. ›+ 4 more definitions

    1. Me, as the object of a verb or preposition without a reflexive trigger. Sometimes used…

      Me, as the object of a verb or preposition without a reflexive trigger. Sometimes used for intensifying the pronoun of oneself.

      • Give the ball to John or myself.

    2. I (as the subject of a verb).

      • My wife and myself want to go on vacation.
      • And my selfe have knowen a Gentleman, a chiefe officer of our crowne, that by right and hope of succession (had he lived unto it) was to inherit above fifty thousand crownes a yeere good land[…].
      • Myself am confident that an ointment of it is one of the best remedies for a scabby head that is.

    3. my name is...

      • Myself John.

    4. Alternative letter-case form of myself used when speaking as God or another important…

      Alternative letter-case form of myself used when speaking as God or another important figure who is understood from context.

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Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for myself. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA